The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-04-15

WiueI IoOul utM vtlOclticb upyoUu VutuJutc'
ton; tho dulest Of US into companionship
with the very hest spirits In their very best
mood, IN tho very parlor OF tho universe, the
four walls FURNISHED and panelled and pict-
urcd and glorilicd with all the splendors that
tho infinite God in all the ages has been
able to invent. Victoryl
This view, of course, makes 1t OF but little
Importance whether we are cremated or
scpulturcd. II the latter Is dust to dust the
former IL ashes to ashes II any prefer in
cincration lot them have it without carica-
turc. Tho world may become so crowded
that cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as by general consent. Many
of the mightest and best spirits hare gone
through this process. Thousands and tens Of
thousands of Gods children have been ere
nated-P. p. Bliss and wife, tho evangclistic
singers, cremated by accident Mt Ashtabula
bridge; John Rodgers, crematel by persecu-
ton; Latmer and Ridley, cremated at Ok
ford; Pothinus and Bandina, slave, and
Alexander, physician, and their comrades,
cremated ut the order of Marcus Aurclius-
at least 100, 900 of Christ's disciples crcmated,
and there can be no doubt about the resurrec-
ton of their bodies. II the world lasts rs
much longer as it has already been built
there perhaps may be no room for the large
acreage set apart for the resting places, but
that time has not come. Plenty of room yet,
and the race need not pass that bridge Of fire
until it comes to it. The most of us prefer
the old way. But whether out Of natural dis
indignation or cremation we shall get that
luminous, buoyant, gladstone, transcendent,
magnificent, inexplicable structure called
the resurrection body; you will have
it, viii have it. soy to you to-
day, as Paul said to Agrippa: why should
it be thought thing incredible with you
that God should raise the deadf' The far up
cloud, higher than tho hawk flies, higher than
tho eagle flies, what Is 1t made of Drops of
water from the Hudson, other drops from the
East river, ether drops from stagnant pool
out on Newark flats-up yonder there, en-
bodied in cloud and the sun kindles it. If
God can make such lustrous cloud OUT Of
water drops, many Of them soiled and impure
and fetched from miles away, can he not
transport the fragments Of human body
from the earth, and out Of them build
radiant body9 Cannot God, who owns all
the material out Of which bones and muscle
and flesh arc made, set them up again if they
have fallcna If a manufacturer of telescopes
drop telescope on the floor and it breaks
can hc not mend it again 80 you can see
through it? And if God drops the human
eye into tho dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can he not restore it? Ay, il tho
manufacturer of the telescope by a change Of
the glass and change Of tho focus can make
letter glass than that which was originally
constructed, and actually improveit, do you
not think the fashioner of the human eve
may improve its sight and multiply the
natural eye by the thousandfoid additional
forces of the resurrection eye?
"Why should it be thought with you an i'll
credible thing that God should raise the deatl?"
Things all around us suggest it. Out of what
grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and
the earth. Resurrected! Resurrected The
radiant butterfly, where did it come from.
The loathsome caterpillar That albatros>
that smites the tempest with its wing, where
did it como from? A senseless shell. Near
Bergerac, France, in q Celtic tomb under
block were found flower seed that had been
buried 1900 years. The explorer took the
flower seed and planted it, and it came up, il
bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thou
sand years ago buried, yet resurrecred. A
traveller says lie found in a mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been buried there
5000 years ago. He brought them out and
III June 4, 1874, he planted them, end in |
thirty days they sprang up. Buried 5000
years yet resurrected. "Why should it he
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?'
Where did all this silk come from-the silk |
that odorns your person and your homes? In
the hollow of a staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progenitors
of those worms that now supply the silk |
markets of many nations. The pageantry OF |
hammered host and the luxurious articles of |
commercial emporium blazing out from the |
silk worms. And who shall be surprised if |
out OF this insignificant earthly body, this in |
significant earthly life, our bodies unfold into |
worthy of the coming eternities!
Put silver into diluted inter and it dissolves.
Is the silver gone forevers No. Put in some
pieces of copper and the silver reappears. II
one force dissolves another force organizes
"Why should it be thought a thing incledi
Die with you that God should raise the dead.'
The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler and then stopped
They have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensibe, but soon the
outh wind will blow the resurrection trum-
yet, and the air and the earth will be full OF
hem. Do you not think that God can do as
much for our bodies as he does for the wasps
md the spiders and the snails? This morning
It 80 o'clock there was resurrection. Out
# the night, the day. In a few weeks there
will be a resurrection i'll all our gardens.
Why not some day resurrection amid all
he graves9
Ever and anon there are instances of men
nd women entranced.
~ trance is death followed by resurrection
fter few days; total suspension Of mental
ower and voluntary action. Rev. William
Cement, Il great evangelist of the last gener-
ion, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a
aan far from being sentimental wrote in
1ost eulogistic terms-Rev William Tennent
eelned to die. His spirit departed. People
anne in day after day and said
"1Ie is dead, lie is dead" But the soul that
ed returned, and William Tennent lived to
'!ite out the experiences of what he had seen
'hile his soul was gone. 1t may be found
on,c time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief death, Civ
- the soul an excursion into tho next world
rom which it comes back, furloush of
,w hours granted from the conflict of life to
'hich it must return. Do not this waking
p of men from trance, and this waking up
insects from winter lifelessness, and TIL,
'aEing up OF grains buried 5000 years ago.